I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.